Cynthia Tucker

Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist whose weekly column appears in newspapers around the country. Tucker has spent most of her career in newspapers, working as a reporter and editor. For 17 years, she served as editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and was also the paper’s Washington-based political columnist. She later spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she was also a Charlayne Hunter-Gault writer-in- residence. She is currently the journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama, where she teaches in the English and political science departments. In 2006, she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. In 2011, she was inducted into the NABJ’s Hall of Fame. A graduate of Auburn University, Tucker was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in the 1988- 89 academic year. She’s a native of Monroeville, Alabama, and lives in Mobile with her 11-year-old daughter, Carly.